| “There is a ____ about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others” (Pride and Prejudice) |
STUBBORNNESS |
| 1992 Wimbledon singles champion who married the other 1992 Wimbledon singles champion in 2001 |
Andre Agassi |
| A brief or insignificant love affair |
amourette |
| A plant shoot or twig used for grafting; a descendant, especially of a noble family |
SCION |
| A terrapin, tortoise or turtle |
CHELONIAN |
| Abnormal forms of brain cell protein |
PRIONS |
| Actor who played Adolf Hitler in the 2004 film Downfall |
Bruno Ganz |
| Actress who played Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek TV series and films |
Nichelle Nichols |
| An ice pinnacle or ridge on a glacier’s surface |
SERAC |
| Another name for a verse in poetry |
STANZA |
| Aural plasma around a star, visible during a total solar eclipse |
CORONA |
| Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Brisbane Cricket Ground is often called the ____ |
GABBA |
| Catchphrase of the game show The Price Is Right |
Come on down |
| Colloquialism asking someone to stop doing something |
leave it out |
| Coral island which encloses a lagoon |
ATOLL |
| Detective created by Dashiell Hammett and notably portrayed by Humphrey Bogart |
Sam Spade |
| Distilled from coal tar, a compound found in mothballs |
NAPHTHALENE |
| Feral horse of the western USA |
MUSTANG |
| French director noted for films such as I Married a Witch (1942) and And Then There Were None |
Rene Clair |
| French theologian often remembered for his romance with Héloïse d’Argenteuil |
Peter Abelard |
| Grain husks separated from flour after grinding |
BRAN |
| Intense fear of horses |
hippophobia |
| Italian for “barley”, and pasta in the shape of its grains |
ORZO |
